Levy asteroid Pictures

Perhaps the biggest score in amateur astronomy is when you are the first to find a comet, says...TBA or allIn the spring of 1993, a very curious comet was discovered. This comet was not single, but a string...Meeting meteors Another field for amateur stargazers is meteor showers, Bakich says. The most basic...On the plus side, the study of near-Earth asteroids may have another benefit besides warning us of...A newly named asteroid, 10938=lorenzalevy, is making its way around the solar system. SOARS protégé...click to enlarge In the discovery chart itself, Angel sits on the Uranus-Pluto midpoint as well as...In July of 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy struck the planet Jupiter , depositing 7 × 10 22 joules of...The orbit of the comet took it close to both Jupiter and Saturn, so it had been in a chaotic...Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.click to enlarge In the discovery chart itself, Angel sits on the Uranus-Pluto midpoint as well as...The idea of Jupiter as protector was first proposed by planetary scientist George Wetherill in 19941...Meteorites, Asteroids and CometsAbout the same time, their colleague and member of their asteroid search team, David Levy, made...Each nucleus crash had hurled material high above Jupiter. The flashes and high temperatures...Each impact resulted in a bright flash on the limb of Jupiter. When the Jovian rotation brought them...It's in vogue now--largely because of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), an object discovered by people...Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Photograph courtesy Dr. H. A. Weaver and Mr. T. E. Smith, STScI/NASA This...The period of heavy bombardment, estimated to have occurred between 4.1-3.8 billion years ago, must...Hrají: Robbie Robertson , Eugene Shoemaker , Carolyn Shoemaker , David Levy Režie: Eitan Weinreich...Each impact resulted in a bright flash on the limb of Jupiter. When the Jovian rotation brought them...Halley's Comet (~ 10km) studied in some detail in 1986. Nucleus of Halley's Comet (ESA image, 1986)...Halley's Comet (~ 10km) studied in some detail in 1986. Nucleus of Halley's Comet (ESA image, 1986)...Halley's Comet (~ 10km) studied in some detail in 1986. Nucleus of Halley's Comet (ESA image, 1986)...Halley's Comet (~ 10km) studied in some detail in 1986. Nucleus of Halley's Comet (ESA image, 1986)...Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet are large, and go very fast because they come from far away They can do...(Asteroid Ida and its satellite Dactyl.) The Galileo mission is only one of several astronomy...Galileo images of Shoemaker-Levy 9 and asteroid 243 Ida on CD-ROM available at NSSDCPieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had earlier broken up after passing too close to Jupiter,...